Speechless

Not that it should come as a big shock given the height difference, the age difference and the fact that Katie always looks unhappy whenever photographed with Tom, but still...it's a bit of a shock.
I can't wait to see what Suri's Burn Book will have to say on this subject...

Let's try this again...

Remember this post from last year regarding my vegetable turned pumpkin turned garden of weeds?  To save you the pain of re-living it I will grab the photo from the post last September:

This year I'm back at it, but with a new plan and a new attitude.  So far, it's working.  It all started this year on May 28th.  I went to the store, bought some food plants and started planting.  But this year I used my head a little bit first.  In attempt to cut back on the embarrassing weeds that last year brought, I got a little smarter and put some plastic down first this time.  It took a little more time, effort and a couple more mosquito bites but like I said, it's working so far.  I also cut back on the plants I put in and made sure there were no pumpkin seeds to be found so I wouldn't end up with a non-pumpkin-producing-patch again come mid-July.  Instead of having pumpkins sprouting I hope to have cucumbers, jalapenos, banana peppers and red and green bell peppers.

I didn't go hog wild with the before shots, but here are a few:

May 28, 2012

I ran out of plastic and had to leave one spot bare. Not to worry though, it's only over by the rhubarb where the plastic isn't and rhubarb will pretty much power through anything and grow.  I didn't do one single thing to this garden the first year I lived here and I had weeds and rhubarb sprouting all the time.  I feel kind of bad letting it be surrounded by weeds, but she's a tough bird--I think she can hold her own.

And the last picture is the picture of my red bell pepper.  I decided to try her in a pot for 

S & G's and see how she does in there.  I haven't taken progress pictures as of now, but there is one tiny pepper that's starting to grow.  Hopefully it will grow into a full pepper before some bird or squirrel snatches it up.

And yes, that is a pretty decent sized tree growing in my garden.  It's the same one I transplanted about two years ago into that spot.  I am pretty sure this fall I will find a permanent spot for it in my yard.  I wanted to keep it nice and safe in the garden while it got big enough to survive the yard.
Anyway, that's my garden update!  Hopefully I will have some good progress pictures to show in the next couple weeks.

Chips (do you ever?)

How come chips are so dang delicious?  I swear I haven't met one person who doesn't love some kind of chip.  Wether it be a Potato, Corn or Pita chip, I love them all.
And you know what Pringles says:  "Once you pop, you can't stop."  And as Chandler Bing would say...Could that be any truer?
Currently sitting in my overhead cabinet at work I have some delicious Stacy's Pita Chips.  Parmesan Garlic & Herb to be exact.  YUM.  I find myself staring at the clock, waiting patiently until 11:35 so I can allow myself to break out the bag and have some with my home-brought lunch.  I have a little problem though and wonder if anyone else does the same (are you reading this, Colleen??).  I will usually pour myself my "ration" for the meal on a napkin.  I know that if I leave the bag sit open, there is a large chance the contents will be gone in the blink of an eye and i will not only be sad, but also depressed that I allowed myself to get so out of control.  Anyway, I pour out my ration and then as I am closing the bag, I grab a few more "extras" to shove in my mouth.  I tend to do the same thing when opening the bag.  My theory is that these "extras" don't really count as extras, because they have already been eaten and were never intended to be poured on the napkin and into the "ration" in the first place.  Does this make sense?  It's almost like they never existed.  I do this at home too.  I will make a grilled cheese or something and put some Cheeto's on a plate while I wait for my sandwich to turn golden brown.  Instead of putting the bag away, I instead eat "extras" form the bag sitting on the counter.  Why don't I just take the Cheeto's from the plate onto which I already poured them you ask?  Well that would take away from my "ration" and you know that's never a good thing.

Marketing at its finest

This may be the dumbest thing to have ever come across my inbox.  It's right up there with the ones from the IT department that say "The network will be down from 4:30 a.m to 5:00 a.m Saturday for maintenance"...it's like, who really cares?  Is anyone going to set their alarm for 4:00 a.m on a Saturday so they can work??  Those who do, deserve the network to be down!
Anyway, sorry.  Back to the subject.

I see this email come through and the subject line reads:

I read the subject line at least twice and think to myself..."this has to be a mistake."  Did they use this for Mother's Day and some web intern skipped some steps so he could leave early one day and just replaced "Mother's" with "Father's" and "woman" for "man"??

On  most of these Groupon emails, I would just hit delete, but this ridiculous subject had me hooked.  I double click to find that no, it wasn't in fact an error or someone being lazy.  People actually took time, brainstormed ideas, thought this sounded like a great one and paid a photographer good money to take one of the dumbest photos I've ever seen!  Not to mention the money they paid the male model to stuff a pillow under his shirt and the bimbo and kid who are pretending to think the guy is actually pregnant.

I would really like to know who thought this would be a clever idea.

I suppose it semi-worked...they had me hooked with the subject line and I did open the email.  Did I buy whatever stupid Groupon they were selling?  No.  I couldn't even tell you what they were selling because I was so focused on the "pregnant" bald guy.  No self-respecting man would probably like what they were selling anyway after a marketing campaign like that one!

Happy Early Father's Day to the guy who DIDN'T carry you around for 9 months...but loved and supported you all the years of your life!

Welcome, Niall

I'd like you to meet Niall, my newest nephew.  Born Wednesday, May 30th at 2:40 p.m.
Weighing in at 7 pounds, 3 ounces.  21 inches long.  Mom, Dad and Niall are all doing wonderful!